Preventing Counterfeit Electronic Parts - West
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June 8-11, 2010
Honeywell Deer Valley
Deer Valley (Phoenix), AZ
Abstracts due: April 9, 2010
Contact: Diganta Das (diganta@umd.edu<mailto:diganta@umd.edu>)
Cost TBA
SMTA and CALCE at the University of Maryland are pleased to announce a
west coast venue for the Symposium on Avoiding, Detecting, and
Preventing Counterfeit Electronic Parts. The first three symposia (held
in College Park, MD) were an overwhelming success with participation of
part manufacturers, distributors, users, government and law enforcement
agencies, legal professionals, authentication technology manufacturers,
academic institutions, supply chain and brand protection professionals.
We are pleased to offer a west coast venue in 2010.
Counterfeit electronics have been reported in a wide range of products,
including computers, telecommunications equipment, automobiles, avionics
and military systems. Counterfeit electronics include everything from
very inexpensive capacitors and resistors to costly microprocessors,
completed assemblies and even systems. Going beyond anecdotes and
examples of counterfeit parts, this symposium focuses on the solutions
that are available and are under development by all sectors of the
industry. Two days of planned sessions for the symposium will include
the following. Some of the technical sessions will be presented in panel
discussion format to offer higher level of audience participation in the
process.
* Keynote session with US government (by invitation only)
* US civilian and defense law enforcement process
* International intellectual property laws and their enforcement
* View from equipment manufacturers and standards bodies
* Inspections tools and techniques for detecting counterfeit parts
* Authentication techniques for securing electronic part supply chain
* Electronic industry supply chain
* Counterfeit beyond electronic parts - equipment, energy storage,
materials, electro-mechanical
In addition to the technical sessions, multiple parallel workshop one
and half day durations will be offered. The technical committee is
currently reviewing the workshop proposals, the expected topics of
workshops include the following:
* Physical & Material Testing to Identify Counterfeit Part: CALCE
* Supply Chain Best Practices: CALCE
* Worldwide Intellectual Property Protection: WIPO - an UN Body
* External Visual Inspection of Electronic Parts: IDEA
* Counterfeit Risk Identification: JPL/NASA
* DMSMS: US DoD
* Counterfeit Part Reporting
* Electrical Testing Methods: Integra
The conference is organized by SMTA in conjunction with Center for
Advanced Life Cycle Engineering (CALCE) at the University of Maryland,
College Park, MD, USA. Previous symposia had been valuable to senior
management, supply chain managers, component engineers, brand protection
specialists, inspectors, marketing and procurement policy makers,
contracts and legal management, security specialists and government
agencies addressing the issue. Our focus is to provide relevant
information to the professionals that can be used for solving problems
today while planning for a different business and technology environment
in the future.
If you are interested in participation in the technical sessions, please
submit an abstract (within 300 words) on relevant topics to Dr. Diganta
Das via email to diganta@umd.edu<mailto:diganta@umd.edu> no later than
April 9th. Please identify the session for which the abstract is being
submitted. The final presentations are due May 14th for the accepted
abstracts.
Registration will open at the SMTA web site in late March 2010, for the
technical sessions and the workshops. For more information about
conference participation or registration, contact Melissa
Serres<melissa@smta.org>.
Symposium Technical Committee:
Diganta Das, Ph.D., CALCE/University of Maryland, Conference Chair
Dan Dimase, Honeywell Technology Solutions, Conference Co-Chair
Bill Barthel, Plexus Corporation
Robin Gray, National Electronic Distributors Association (NEDA)
Phil Montag, Honeywell Technology Solutions
Sydney Pope, Office of the Secretary of Defense
Phil Zulueta, Jet Propulsion Laboratories
Mark Crawford, Office of Technology Evaluation, Department of Commerce
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